一、报告题目
　　The impact of China’s WTO accession on internal migration

　　二、报告人
　　周明海，University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) 讲师

　　三、报告时间
　　2016年10月27日下午3：30

　　四、报告地点
　　中心校区知新楼B321

　　五、报告摘要
　　In this paper we focus on the changes in internal migration flows triggered by China’s 2001 entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO). We use a difference-in-difference empirical specification based on variation across Chinese prefectures before and after 2001. We relate changes in internal migration rates to the reduction in trade policy uncertainty faced by Chinese exporters to the U.S., as measured by the normal-traderelations (NTR) gap (Handley and Limao 2013, Pierce and Schott 2015). We find that Chinese prefectures facing a larger decline in their average NTR-gap experience a greater increase in internal migration. Our results also show that the impact on skilled and unskilled internal migration rates is consistent with the average skill intensity of export industries of a prefecture.

　　六、主办单位
　　山东大学经济学院